ROSES ON WALLS AND HOUSES 61 



naked stem and branch and famished growth of flower 

 and leaf covered with green-fly ? Perhaps within 

 three feet of its root is a flourishing Ivy, with a stem 

 as thick as a man's wrist, covering half the house and 

 bulging with the loose untidy nests of house sparrows. 

 If we expect a Rose to give its beauty we should at 

 least let it have fair play both above ground and 

 below ; in the ground by giving it proper space and 

 nutriment, and above by watching for the time when 

 old wood should be cut out, rampant young stuff 

 tipped, and new flowering wood trained in. 



